The Ministry of Health in Eswatini embarked on the national scale-up of decentralized care for hypertension and diabetes, in an attempt to address the overburdened health system. The WHOpen project was a cluster-randomized trial to assess the most efficient way of organizing the decentralization.
The syndemics project is part of WHOpen and uses the community-based surveys to map the syndemic of prevalent infectious and non-infectious diseases. It tries to elucidate if specific scale-up strategies for different groups are warranted to improve decentralized care.
Funding
European Commission H2020
Project partners
The syndemics project is part of WHOpen and uses the community-based surveys to map the syndemic of prevalent infectious and non-infectious diseases. It tries to elucidate if specific scale-up strategies for different groups are warranted to improve decentralized care.
Funding
European Commission H2020
Project partners
- Universitaetsklinikum Heidelberg, Germany (lead)
- University of Eswatini, Kwaluseni, Eswatini
- Clinton Health Access Initiative, Mbabane, Eswatini
- Swaziland Business Coalition on Health and AIDS
- Diabetes Swaziland, Manzini, Eswatini
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
- Schweizerisches Tropen- und Public Health-Institut, Basel, Switzerland
- Folkhelseinstituttet, Norway
2019 - 2023